Re: [MiNT] Problem with cnews and ext2fs

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>]

Hi Mario!

> On the ext2 partitions, cnews fails to operate because it always thinks
> the disc is full. This means that no incoming articles are processed and
> cnews entirely ceases to operate. In reality there is hundreds of
> megabytes of space available. This problem affects all the cnews programs
> such as relaynews, rnews and dostatfs.
> 
> On the minix filesystem this does not happen. I don't know whether this is
> some kind of cnews bug, or a bug in the new ext2 driver.
> 
> I believe the cnews binaries that I am using came from KGMD, but I can't
> be sure about that now. I will look into this in more detail shortly but
> in the mean time I would appreciate any suggestions that may be relevant.

If this are old binaries compiled with an old MiNT-Lib they eventually 
depending on some MinixFS specific Dcntl() that are not implemented in 
ext2fs. I can send you a debug version from the ext2fs to see if this 
happens.

> I also have another problem with the ext2fs, only in this case it is
> probably caused only by my ignorance. I can't get the badblocks tool to
> work - when I specify a partition on the commandline, it fails saying
> "badblocks: file not found while trying to open drive e" (or which ever
> drive I specify). How do I specify which partition to work on?

Sorry, badblocks doesn't work at all. It must be adaptated to MiNT first. 
My failure to put this into the e2fsprogs archive.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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